3D Reconstruction - Multiple Viewpoints

This course is about recovering the 3D structure from different images. First, we build a complete geometric model of a camera. Then, we develop a method to find (calibrating), the internal and exterior parameters of that camera model. We then show you how to use two calibrated cameras, which have known relative orientations and positions, to reconstruct the scene's 3D structure. This is called simple binocular stereo. Next we will tackle the problem with uncalibrated stereo, where the relative orientations and positions of the cameras are not known. It is interesting that we can use the images from both cameras to determine the relative orientations and positions of the cameras. This information can then be used to estimate the scene's 3D structure.